Police State

The drug warriors who threw a bomb into the crib of a baby won't be charged. Typical.

Blacks afraid of the police. Everybody should be afraid of the police. If you aren't, you're suffering from a false sense of security.

Government says it knows all about us from our electronic communication, but here's why we shouldn't believe it.

"Personal data harvesting for contextual ads and content should be a beautiful thing. They do it privately and securely, and it's all automated so that no human being actually learns anything about you. And then the online world becomes customized, just for you. The real problem with this scenario is that is we're paying for contextual ads and content with our personal data, but we're not getting what we pay for. Facebook advertising is off target and almost completely irrelevant. The question is: Why? Facebook has a database of our explicitly stated interests, which many users fill out voluntarily. Facebook sees what we post about. It knows who we interact with. It counts our likes, monitors our comments and even follows us around the Web. Yet, while the degree of personal data collection is extreme, the advertising seems totally random."

If companies can't figure us out, the government certainly can't. There's an economic lesson about wants and central planning in here.

Head of Britain's main national police force says Britons must give up more internet freedom for security. That's a false trade-off.

Twitter sues FBI and DOJ to release NSA requests about its users.Twitter must think it's reached bigtime crony status, but I doubt it has. This guy doubts too.

China wages cyberwar on Hong Kong protesters.

This story has it all: lying, stealing, pornography and oppression, all by the government.

"A DEA agent commandeered a woman’s identity, created a phony Facebook account in her name, and posted racy photos he found on her seized cell phone. The government said he had the right to do that."

It also endangered her. The government has no limits on its power.

"On Monday, the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., referred all questions to the DEA, which then declined to answer questions and, in turn, referred inquiries to the local U.S. attorney’s office in Albany, New York. That office did not respond to multiple requests for an interview."

Pass the buck much?

"Leading privacy experts told BuzzFeed News they found the case disturbing. “It reeks of misrepresentation, fraud, and invasion of privacy,” said Anita L. Allen, a professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School."

So does almost everything else government does.

Somebody else has noticed the internet of things will make people more vulnerable to crime.

Prison inmate denied parole on false information represents himself at Ohio Supreme Court and wins.